Things have been busy here. I've been sorting through closets and stuff. Been posting FS lists and trying to down-size some stuff.
Seems like I only really have time to read and not get to post much. I've been posting some over on the Diapering board, that place is crazy.
They are soooo chatty over there. I find myself reading and replying to a few posts over there... next thing I know its almost 2 hours later.
Major time suckage.
Jen- Sorry to hear about Jo's cold. Summer colds are the worst!
Julia- oh yes... the Tour... I've be watching the Lance Chronicles for the last ... too many weeks. :LOL David is very much into watching the Tour, which means I've been watching it since my computer is in the same room with the TV. :LOL David was really into cycling before we met and has gotten back into it again in the last few years (he now has several road and mountain bikes). In fact just the other night he FINALLY broke down and bought a trainer/spinner to put his bike on. They were having a "Tour special" and he got it cheaper than he could have gotten it online.
He isn't riding as much as he'd like with the rainy weather lately and of course the lack of "extra" time when you have kids. He used it Thursday night before he had to go out of town... says he wished he'd gotten it sooner. (I only told him to get one 6 months ago
) I honestly don't think a day has gone by in the last 2 months that I haven't heard "something" from David about Lance. :LOL He and Tori are making a sign to put in the frontyard that says "Go Lance". Yes, my 3 year old DD knows who Lance Armstrong is.
She can pick him out of a row of magazines. She can also pick out Michael Schumacher the German Ferrari F-1 racer.
She is soo into her Daddy's interests.
Aaaah the weight gain... I've gained over 40+ pounds so far. I started out at about 140 (with about 20 pounds leftover from Jack's pregnancy where I gained 65+ pounds!!) and I was looking at my records at my last appointment... I was 183 when Tori was born and 185 with Jack... I'm currently at 188 and still have 8+ weeks to go.
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I don't know if I'm bigger (okay I know my butt certainly is.
than I was before. I don't think my belly sticks out as much as it did before at this weight.
Is anyone else's belly button REALLY sensitive? I have a deep innie (usually) but it always goes pretty flat but not to the point of being an outie. That skin is soooo sensitive. And I keep brushing it right on the edge of the counter. Ooh ooh that smarts.
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Last week I had a couple nights of very little sleep. For some reason Radish decided that at about 11pm was time to be in almost constant motion... until about 10am the NEXT morning.
: And he did this several night in a row. Everytime I found a comfortable position where my pelvis or back didn't hurt... he'd start moving all around.
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: I don't think I slept longer than 25 minutes all night. I think I need to "disturb" him more during the day so that he'll slept more at night. I don't think I'll be able to handle a wide awake night owl newborn. Not with my two early morning risers. How did this happen? How did I end up with two morning birds when I'm a total night owl?? Well, at least Radish will be like me... and I'll be dead from exhaustion.
Chrissy- I hear you about the energy level and being too tired for DH... that has gone over like a lead brick.
It's so hard to balance everyone's needs and not feel wiped out.
Got some possibly disturbing news this weekend. David's guard unit might get called up to active duty for the "sandbox". They can't keep sending all the active duty units over there, many of them have been deployed 2-3x. He wouldn't be "leaving" stateside until early next year but they are talking about training and organizing equipment stuff as early as late Aug-early Sept.
He would still be here in Texas but across the state... when I'm due.
And here I thought we'd dodged the bullet when they cancelled the 3 week AT in Equidor (a place I'd rather he wasn't with all the american "kidnapping") in late Sept-Oct due to lack of funds because of the war. I really don't want him gone when I'm due... heck I really don't want him gone PERIOD. Ugh, the military sometimes.
It's "suppose" to be "volunteer" at this point but if there's aren't enough people to fill slots... they will deploy whole units. Hopefully we'll know something in the next couple of weeks.
Oh and my mom will probably be out of town when Radish comes. The weekend he's due, she's going to be in Virginia with the National Greyhound Adoption Conference. She's heavily involved with Greyhound rescue and adoption. I'll be ticked if neither of them are here for the birth. I don't know what I'll do, my MIL is the only other one we trust the kids with so she'll be here at the house with Tori and Jack (neither can be in L&D). And honestly I'm not that close with her that I'd really want her as my birthing partner YK? Ugh! I so don't need this.
This weekend was a huge "get all the paperwork together in case they decide to deploy us" weekend at drill for David. They of course couldn't find his current VAX records so they gave them all to him again. MMR, Typhoid, and about a half a dozen others... so he's feeling like total crap now. He says he's had a pounding headache all day. Great, now he's going to be all pathetic for the next couple of days.
Well it's late and I've been up since 5am... stupid dog HAD to go out right then, HAD to bark really loud and made enough noise to wake Jack up for the day...
Good thing he was so smiley and gave me a huge snuggle hug when I went into his room to get him... otherwise the boy might have gotten a pillow in the face. (I'M JOKING!!!
) We spent the early morning giggling and playing on the floor. Okay so I sat in the same spot on the floor and he swirled around me playing. We had about 2 hours of one on one playing time and sharing of blueberry muffins. Jack is so sweet, he's at that age where he has to "share" the piece that's in his hand. Sometimes it's before he's slobbered on it
sometimes...
: I'm not so lucky. :LOL
Which reminds me! David made all this noise about wanting me to make some Blueberry muffins last week... so I made a batch on Tuesday night. When I got up Wednesday morning what was he eating for breakfast... TOAST!! Out of a batch of 12 muffins... he's eaten ZERO!! I on the otherhand... have eaten 3 and I don't even LIKE Blueberry muffins.
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: He drives me crazy about making him muffins and he never eats more than one maybe two! He likes me to put walnuts in the Banana Oatmeal muffins I make. Well, I can't give those to Jack then (who LOVES the Banana Oatmeal muffins). We won't give him nuts until he's three. Tori has only just started to have nuts, but I have to be careful that she doesn't give any to Jack then. She's into being helpful and trying to "feed" Jack all the time. So what happens... I end up eating most of the muffins because they are only good for "maybe" a week if I'm lucky. Thank you I already eat enough without baking for him and then eating everything. Can't tell you how many batches of Chocolate Chip cookies I've eaten in the past couple of months because HE wanted some. "No honey, don't put oatmeal in them, I like the plain CC ones better..."
: Yeah, well I like oatmeal in it (so does Jack... aah my little oatmeal eater that takes after his mommy
) and from now on, I'm putting oatmeal in them since I just ate most of the last batch!! AGAIN!!
Okay, NOW I'm going to go to bed... yeah right. :LOL :LOL
Last year it was only 45 mins. drive away, and unfortunately this year it's 2+ hrs. drive away, so I'm not really looking forward to the drive. Also, I'm going by myself, and have mixed feelings about that, too. But I'll be so busy, and dh would be bored out of his mind and likely stuck in the hotel with the kids most of the time, since it's in a nothing location. Room service typically doesn't offer such great vegan choices, either.
Ha. Upper-reaches kicks are getting closer and closer to my ribs. I was 30 weeks on Saturday.
